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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1916
Page
3
The item includes a poem by Will Carleton in Presbyterian Standard praising gratitude and endurance. It also notes Miss Hazel Hogan of Lenoir passing through the city en route to Trinity to visit Mrs. James Richard Johnson and Lyde Leach.
The L T L due social is scheduled for Monday night at the Methodist Protestant church from 7 to o clock. All mothers and W C T U members are invited. Programs include devotional by Mrs A K Marshall, song by Legion, violin duets by Lillian Harris and De Holder, and several recitations by local members plus a cigarette bonfire and refreshments. Mrs R J Pleasants of Waynesboro is visiting daughter.
Mr and Mrs J P Rawley and Mr Sam McGinn of Charlotte return home after a weeklong tour by automobile visiting Baltimore Washington and Richmond.
The Associated Press reports about 11 000 women clerks and stenographers are employed in Whitehall offices as men go to the army. Demand remains high with 200 more required weekly. pay ranges from a pound weekly for routine typing to 26–30 shillings for clerical work with overtime. Normal hours run 42 to 48 weekly as civil service commissioners source temporary staff for the ministry of munitions and the post office.
The article notes a Billy Burke film Billie's Romance at Broadway with free matinees from 3 to 6 pm. Lieutenant Armstrong urges young High Pointers to enlist for Uncle Sam, hinting Tar Heel guards may move to Camp Glenn and then to the Texas Mexico border as railroad talks and the Mexican border rumor circulate.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels spoke in Milbridge Maine detailing his campaign role for Wilsons reelection He rebutted 13 Gardner questions about navy administration noting Gardner has asked the same questions repeatedly and implied he would not listen to the answers The secretary quipped about setting the answers to music to stop the questions.
An old ad touts Tollo Water as a quick cure for morning headaches by “tart[ing] your liver.” It claims bile backup poisons the system and kills appetite, offering a 15 cent bottle as a solution while urging dietary changes and avoidance of alcohol and sweets.
A 30 year courtship culminated in the wedding of August Seotvold from a Centerville hardware store and Miss Anna Peterson who recently arrived from Norway. The marriage ceremony occurred here with the couple traveling for a new life.
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